Week report November 13-18, 2023

This week was a mixed bag of bonefishing and just bending rods and having a good time. My week started off with Victor and his wife from Ukraine and the goal was to catch a few fish for dinner which we quickly did catching fun yellow jacks and tasty snappers. Then we switched off and fished the flats for sharks where we hooked up three or four sharks and Victor was thoroughly impressed with the speed and power of lemon sharks in 2 feet of Clearwater. Then I had Benji, Arman and Riley, and it was another fun day of just bending rods and catching a lot of fish. Riley had never caught a fish before and pretty soon she had outfished the boys. Way to go, girl! My bonefish trip was with regular client Ralph, which fishes with me every year right before Thanksgiving and it was a slow start but eventually Ralph caught a 3 pound bonefish and then quickly upgrade it to a much nicer fish to wrap up our quick four hour morning trip. This week has been a lot of fun with a mixed bag of species and fishing being solid all the way around. 

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Week report November 8-11, 2023

I've been so swamped with charters that's it's been hard to update my reports page one trip at a time so I'll update for the week instead. 

The week of November 8-11 we focused mostly on bonefish and permit and it worked out most of the time for bonefish but the permit were inconsistent early mornings.  

on November 8th I had Charles and his wife fly fishing for bonefish for a 3/4 day and he was able to get his first bonefish and then a few more with 4 in total on fly. 

 On the 10th I had Scott and his son for a 6 hour trip and we had some shots, plenty actually at permit and then switched off to bonefish where the guys caught six in a few hours.  It was actually really good and the guys had a blast. 

On the 11th I had Andrew and today was a tough day with us just getting one bonefish and a small one at that.  Heck, I'll take a bonefish any day but compared to how the fishing has been today was a slow day.  I did notice this week as we got closer to the full moon the fish were getting smaller as the larger sexually mature fish were getting ready to go offshore and spawn.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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This is what November is like November 6, 2023

The weather from my last trip finally broke and was replaced by perfect November conditions.  Thankfully I had Rob from Boston who brought his fly rod and wanted to target bonefish and permit.  Conditions were way off for permit so we focused on bonefish.  The first spot was dead and I started to get a bit anxious hoping it would be a good day.  Spot two was actually pretty good with Rob quickly landing two smaller bonefish on fly.  As I poled him around we could see the puffs on the bottom from bonefish we were spooking out but couldn't see due to very high water levels and a bit of overcast conditions.  eventually we saw another school and Rob snipe one out of the school.  We're up to three bonefish at this point.  The fishing slowed down and we fished another flat where ti was dead.  As soon as I started to consider moving on I saw a big single bone, then a school and then a few more.  The schools were moving pretty consistently and eventually rob got another three on this flat bringing our total to 6 before we headed in.  Six Miami bonefish on fly, ha, I'll take that every day!  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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The silver lining was worth the effort. November 4, 2023

What a start and not for the good as I fished today with two awesome guys, Stephen and Rob.  They wanted to fish for bonefish but there was constant drizzle and the sky was a thick grey.  We took off and fished a spot I like and my hopes were up as we had the perfect tide and it was out of the increasing 15 MPH wind.  Ha, what do I know!  This spot was dead and only a few bonefish could be seen in the distant as they swam in water that was still way too deep for the tide stage we were at.  OK, off to the next spot.  This spot usually produces but man it was slow for a while, no fish, no muds, no flashes, nothing.  Until finally the bones started to swim through at the end of the outgoing tide and are were able to hook 3 and land two, one for each of the guys.  Close call but not bad considering the terrible conditions.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Week Halloween Report October 31, 2023

The last week and a half have been a bit tough on the water due to unusually high winds in the 20-25 MPH range and huge tides.  The bulk of what I was booked for was just catching fish so we did just that but we had to pick our spots due to the wind.  The tides were almost well over two feet above normal due to the king tide plus an hard east wind filling the bay with even more water.  On two trips we did target bonefish and snook and while we did get a few bites on each, there were no hook ups or landed fish to brag about.  

On Halloween I fished with local angler and long time client Alec for a full day.  We finally had perfect fall weather and a good tide but still at least 2 feet above normal.  We worked quickly through the incoming tide and had shots at small tarpon, saw some bonefish and had a couple of snook bites before looking for pilchards (bait).  the finger channels were really hard to fish because of the unusually strong current so we found bait, I loaded up the well and hit a few spots to live chum mutton snappers and yellow jacks.  We found a few yellow jacks but no muttons.  We wrapped up our trip live chumming for snook and had one hit but ended up catching a nice mangrove snapper instead before we headed back to clean fish for dinner.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Silver and Gold. October 18, 2023

I had Barry again today and we started off fishing for small tarpon but didn't hook any of them.  Actually, we barely saw any of them, go figure!  Fishing a creek we did find snook where Barry landed one but lost three others when the snook would jump and spit the hook.  A few other times Barry had snook hit the lure right next to the boat and we could see their big mouths wide open trying to eat the lure, so cool!  We wrapped it up bone fishing where there were tons of bonefish swimming and we ended up hooking three and landing one.  With the amount of fish we saw we should have done better but it is what it is.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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This is it! October 16, 2023

This morning I fished with Jake for a 6 hour charter.  Last time we fished Jan caught 11 bonefish!  Today we were looking for permit and some dinner.  The weather was perfect as it usually is in October and off we went.  The schools of migrating mullet were getting crushed we so made a detour and threw top water lures at the schools trying to land some snook but we ended up catching a nice jack instead.  We moved of for permit and they were MIA in spite of great conditions.  Off to tarpon where Jake had four tarpon blow up his top water and finally hooked one that got right next to the boat before spitting the hook.  Time to look for pilchards and get dinner but the pilchards were also MIA so we used live shrimp and caught yellow jacks and snapper.  Wrapping it up we targeted bonefish and in 45 minutes Jake caught three bonefish.  Dang, that's a nice day!

 

Capt. Mo Estevez

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